"It really is the video game that launched the industry," said Ryan Barr, a spokesman for Atari, which created Pong in 1972.
Ahead of new console launches the industry tends to become exuberant even though the financial argument rarely makes sense.
In 2010, Dasient launched the industry's first anti-malvertising service to protect ad networks and publishers from the scourge of malicious ads.
Badgeville also claims to have launched the industry's first ISV program, enabling companies like Oracle, Kaiser Permanente's Avivia Health, and Saba to embed Badgeville into their core technologies.
While there, he was instrumental in building the Branded Products Group, which successfully launched the industry's first "OneTouch" external storage and backup solution, which ultimately defined the category and broke the technology barrier for mass consumer adoption.
Thirty years ago, Phoenix's core systems software helped launch the PC industry with its original BIOS product.
Like Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford in George Michael's, "Freedom 90", or Stephanie Seymour in Guns N' Roses', "November Rain" these videos helped launch the fashion industry superstars into a whole new realm of stardom that made them household names.
A year later, German industrial chemist Carl Bosch scaled up that process to launch the synthetic fertilizer industry.
They've also launched the music industry's answer to MP3, the Sony/Dolby- developed ACC format.
